Ahmed Adnan al-Ashlaq

Shaam News Network

May 27, 2012, in Damascus, Syria

Al-Ashlaq, a correspondent for the citizen news organization
Shaam News Network, was killed
along with two colleagues--Ammar Mohamed Suhail Zado, Shaam's Homs director, and
Lawrence Fahmy al-Naimi, the head of live streaming for the network--while filming clashes between security forces and armed
rebels in Damascus. The journalists were in an apartment in the Al-Midan
neighborhood when their building was shelled by security forces, according to a
Shaam News Network representative who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The representative said the network believes security forces
targeted the journalists. The representative told CPJ that the army had taken
away the bodies and had not returned them to their families in Homs.

The Damascus-based Shaam News
Network has posted thousands of videos documenting the unrest since the
uprising began in March 2011. Shaam's footage has been used heavily by several
international news organizations including Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN.